Revolutionary Party of Turkey

The Revolutionary Party of Turkey was a communist political party in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey that existed from 1848 to 1936. The Revolutionary Party advocated the creation of an egalitarian society with a state-run economy, full citizenship for all citizens of the empire, the abolition of religion in public life, and the creation of a strogn military. The party was strongly atheist, and it opposed the power that Sunni Islam held in the daily life of the people of the Ottoman Empire. The party would be suppressed under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government due to its far-left views.